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Humans Like Stories. Humans Need Stories. Stories Are Good. Stories Work. Story Clarifies And Captures The Essence Of The Human Spirit. Story, In All Its Forms—of Life, Of Love, Of Knowledge—has Traced The Upward Surge Of Mankind. And Story, You Mark My Words, Will Be With The Last Human To Draw Breath.

Reading, I Had Learned, Was As Creative A Process As Writing, Sometimes More So. When We Read Of The Dying Rays Of The Setting Sun Or The Boom And Swish Of The Incoming Tide, We Should Reserve As Much Praise For Ourselves As For The Author. After All, The Reader Is Doing All The Work - The Writer Might Have Died Long Ago.

I'll Tell You What Love Is" I Said, "it Is Blind Devotion, Unquestioning Self Humiliation, Utter Submission, Trust And Belief Against Yourself And Against The Whole World, Giving Up Your Heart And Soul To The Smiter.

The Inspiration Comes From Everywhere, From What I Grew Up With. There's So Much Silliness And Nonsense In The World That We Regard As Normal Working Procedure. The Satirical Point Of The View May Be To Counterpoint That. The Way We Look At Classics Has Been Hijacked By The Intelligentsia - Shakespeare Is Highbrow And Seen As Something Clever People Do, Which Isn't Right At All. I Basically Pull Inspiration From Everywhere.

To Espresso Or To Latte, That Is The Question...whether 'tis Tastier On The Palate To Choose White Mocha Over Plain...or To Take A Cup To Go. Or A Mug To Stay, Or Extra Cream, Or Have Nothing, And By Opposing The Endless Choice, End One's Heartache.